Notes
Notes Preface 1. Roger Stoddard, Marks in Books, Illustrated and Explained, 1. Stoddard revisits the catalogue and repeats this passage in ‘‘Looking at Marks in Books,’’ 27. 2. Since Stoddard there have been a number of exhibitions specifically devoted to the marks of readers from the European Renaissance: see Bernard M. Rosenthal, The Rosenthal Collection of Printed Books with Manuscript Annotations; John Considine (ed.); Adversaria: Sixteenth-Century Books and the Traces of Their Readers; Sabrina Alcorn Baron (ed.), The Reader Revealed; and Bradin Cormack and Carla Mazzio, Book Use, Book Theory, 1500–1700. It is also worth singling out the recent sale catalogues of Maggs Bros. for their exemplary attention to marginalia and other marks left behind by early readers—see especially Books and Readers in Early Modern Britain (1510–1815) (catalogue no. 1293), Books and Readers in Early Modern Britain (1478–1700) (catalogue no. 1324), and Books and Readers in Early Modern Britain (catalogue no. 1393). 3. See particularly Anthony Grafton, ‘‘Is the History of Reading a Marginal Enterprise? Guillaume Budé and His Books,’’ and Commerce with the Classics: Ancient Books and Renaissance Readers. Other useful disciplinary histories can be found in Bernard M. Rosenthal’s preface to The Rosenthal Collection; Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England; Kevin Sharpe and Steven N. Zwicker (eds.), Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England; Steven N. Zwicker, ‘‘Reading the Margins: Politics and the Habits of Appropriation’’; Heidi Brayman Hackel, Reading Material in Early Modern England; and Adolfo Tura, ‘‘Essay sur les marginalia et tant que pratique et documents .’’ 4. William H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading and Writing in the English Renaissance. See also Deborah Harkness, John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature; Anthony Grafton, ‘‘John Dee Reads Books of Magic’’; and Hilde Norrgrén, ‘‘Interpretation and the Hieroglyphic Monad: John Dee’s Reading of Pantheus’s Voarchadumia.’’ 5. On Harvey, see Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, ‘‘‘Studied for Action’: How Gabriel Harvey Read His Livy,’’ and Virginia F. Stern, Gabriel Harvey: A Study of His Life, Marginalia, and Library; on Jonson, see Robert C. Evans, Habits of Mind: Evidence and Effects of Ben Jonson’s Reading, and James A. Riddell and Stanley Stewart, Jonson’s Spenser: Evidence and Historical Criticism; on Jones, see Christy Anderson, Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition; on Blount, see Fred Schurink, ‘‘‘Like a hand in the margine of a Booke’: William Blount’s Marginalia and the Politics of Sidney’s Arcadia’’; on Drake, see Sharpe, Reading Revolutions; on Montaigne , see André Tournon, Montaigne: La glose et l’essai, and M. A. Screech, Montaigne ’s Annotated Copy of Lucretius: A Transcription and Study of the Manuscript, 186 Notes to Pages xi–xvi Notes and Pen-marks; and on Kepler and Budé, see Grafton, Commerce with the Classics . 6. Brayman Hackel, Reading Material, 137–95; H. J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books, 165–78; Owen Gingerich, The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. Steven N. Zwicker compares the marginalia in a number of copies of Milton’s Paradise Lost in ‘‘‘What every literate man once knew’: Tracing Readers in Early Modern England’’; Elaine Whitaker classifies the marginalia in sixteen copies of Caxton’s Royal Book in her ‘‘Collaboration of Readers’’; and in ‘‘What Did Renaissance Readers Write in Their Copies of Chaucer?’’ Alison Wiggins describes the marginalia preserved in more than fifty copies of Renaissance editions of Chaucer. 7. Jonathan Rose, review of Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier (eds.), A History of Reading in the West, 251. 8. That is, the books catalogued in A. W. Pollard, G. R. Redgrave, and K. F. Pantzer, A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475–1640. In the Huntington’s rare book stacks, the STC books are stored as a group, in the order of their STC numbers (and therefore in alphabetical order by author’s name). Other STC titles are scattered throughout the more specialized collections and in the vaults that house the especially rare volumes. 9. I deposited a copy of my notes with the rare book curators at the Huntington , with the hope that it would help their cataloguers and researchers. While some libraries have traditionally kept index card files of former owners, better catalogues of marginalia are badly needed to help future scholars locate the past readers and readings that interest them; and researchers will...
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